Hey everyone!
It’s been a while since our last update and we very much appreciate everyone’s patience. Today, we have re-enabled map publishing for StarCraft II!
If you encounter any maps with content that you believe is inappropriate, please use the reporting options in-game to flag it for our teams to review.
=== Original Post Below ===
Hey everyone,
Back in April, we saw reports of malicious users forcing inappropriate videos onto other players through custom game lobbies. We identified those users and have removed their access to StarCraft II. At the same time, we disabled the ability to upload custom map content through the Galaxy Editor so we could fix the bug that was being abused here. Since then, we’ve been working on multiple updates to the Custom Games service so that we could turn publishing back on.
While this work is ongoing, we wanted to provide a space here on the forums where we could share updates as things progress.
Timeline so far:
- February 24 2026: Map Publishing has been re-enabled
- December 15 2025: Today we performed game maintenance and deployed an update in our ongoing work to harden Custom Games against abuse. These updates will deploy with region specific maintenance over the next couple of days. Map publishing will not be re-enabled with this maintenance.
- September 2 2025: It has been a while since this topic was updated but we wanted to assure those following it for information that this project and work is still ongoing. We’ll continue to use this location to share any additional information we can in the future.
- July 17 2025: During testing we have identified some issues that still need to be resolved and we are disabling publishing for this subset of users once again. Thank you for your continued patience.
- July 15 2025: We’ve re-enabled publishing for a subset of users as a test in preparation of re-enabling Map Publishing more broadly. You may see reports of players successfully uploading maps and mods again.
- June 20 2025: We’ve made several improvements to the services that run custom game lobbies and are currently in QA testing for these changes to ensure they work as intended.
- May 30th 2025: First update is now live in all regions to allow Blizzard to filter bad videos
- Note: If you have previously published a map that calls on a video, and that video is no longer playing then please create a topic with a link to your map(s).
- April 21st 2025: Map Publishing from the Galaxy Editor disabled